Morning Briefings

Despite their prevalence in American high school culture, college admissions exams–such as the ACT and SAT–may not be critical to making good admissions decisions at many of the colleges and universities that use them, stated the National Association for College Admission Counseling report. [Bates College’s William] Hiss stated, ‘We felt students were spending way too much time worrying about and trying to prepare for testing instead of taking advanced calculus or taking a Chinese history course or working at an AIDS clinic.’

– Morgan Modjeski
More than 280 U.S. universities ditch SAT, The Manitoban